Family Foundations

Family Foundations

Douglas Teti, head of the Department of Human Development and Family Studies (HDFS), and professor of HDFS, psychology, and pediatrics, has received a $600,000 grant from the National Institutes on Health for his study on coparenting, infant sleep, and infant development.

A brief series of classes to help first-time parents better support each other through the often stressful transition to parenthood has a positive effect on birth outcomes as well, according to health researchers.

Children whose parents participated in a prenatal program aimed at enhancing couples' co-parenting relationship were better adjusted at age seven than children whose parents were assigned to a control group, according to Penn State researchers.

Family Foundations, an evidence-based, transition to parenthood program for couples, is testing an online, interactive version designed specifically for members of the National Guard and U.S. Army Reserve. Family Foundations was developed by Mark Feinberg, a research professor at Penn State’s Prevention Research Center Penn State with funding provided by the National Institutes of Health (NIH).